Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 58.11
Liaison Elizabeth Drake
Submission Date April 19, 2017
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Swarthmore College
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.62 / 1.00 Aurora Winslade
Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Cleaning Products 

Total expenditures on cleaning products:
8,261.25 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on cleaning products that are Green Seal or UL ECOLOGO certified and/or Safer Choice labeled (or local equivalents for institutions outside the U.S. and Canada):
729 US/Canadian $

Janitorial Paper Products 

Total expenditures on janitorial paper products:
13,755.58 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on janitorial paper products that are FSC, Green Seal, and/or UL ECOLOGO certified (or local equivalents for institutions outside the U.S. and Canada):
12,977.02 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
62.25

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):
Expenditures have been calculated from reports provided by vendors Hillyard and Frank T. McCalls. The Hillyard report has data spans from 1/04/2016 - 5/05/2016. The Frank T. McCall's data spans from 1/01/2016 - 4/18/2016.

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Cindy Urick Contracts and Purchasing Manager Purchasing Office curick1@swarthmore.edu 610-690-5529 C. Stuart Hain Vice President for Facilities and Capital Projects chain1@swarthmore.edu 610-328-8276

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